Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. The books included are on a wide variety of subjects and present many different points of view. The opinions expressed in these books do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial board of JBHE. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon. As an Amazon Associate, JBHE will earn a fraction of revenue from qualifying purchases.

Here are the latest selections:

Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina by Paulina L. Alberto (Cambridge University Press)	Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life by Elijah Anderson (University of Chicago Press)	Connections Remembered, the African Origins of Humanity and Civilization: The Impact of Historical Memory on Black Identity by Lindlwe Stovall Lester and Sonal Kibwe Lester (PSE Institute)
Elders’ Cultural Knowledges and the Question of Black/ African Indigeneity in Education by George J. Sefa Dei et al. (Springer)	Empowering Black Boys to Challenge Rape Culture by Gordon Braxton (Oxford University Press)	Hosea Williams: A Lifetime of Defiance and Protest by Rolundus R. Rice (University of South Carolina Press)
Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship by Hawa Allan (W.W. Norton)	Much Sound and Fury, or the New Jim Crow? The Twenty-First Century’s Restrictive New Voting Laws and Their Impact edited by Micahel A. Smith (State University of New York Press)	Performing Racial Uplift: E. Azalia Hackley and African American Activism in the Post-Bellum to Pre-Harlem Era by Juanita Karpf (University Press of Mississippi)
Principles and Agents: The British Slave Trade and Its Abolition by David Richardson (Yale University Press)	The Drum Is a Wild Woman: Jazz and Gender in African Diaspora Literature by Patricia Lespinasse (University Press of Mississippi)	The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert by John W.I. Lee (Oxford University Press)